A response to Charles Bukowski's Bluebird:

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I do.
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
he sings a tender song of strife
fluttering around the glass riddled grass
he's in there gasping for desire

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too fond for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to align my failing eyes?

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
he listens to the thunderous cries of tormented lost will
he watches a stormy life drenched and alone

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
he knows that I was not what others saw
he flies around the crashing senile walls
singing the tender song of strife
trailing the ill filled clouds that breathed life

there is a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
he's siphoned my joy and gifted me creative coy
he'll never die.

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